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Employment testing is the practice of administering written, oral, or other tests as a means of determining the suitability or desirability of a job applicant.

The premise is that if scores on a test correlate with job performance, then it is economically useful for the employer to select employees based on scores from that test.

Licensure means a restricted practice or a restriction on the use of an occupational title, requiring a license.

A license created under a "practice act" requires a license before performing a certain activity, such as driving a car on public roads.

A license created under a "title act" restricts the use of a given occupational title to licensees, but anyone can perform the activity itself under a less restricted title.

For example, in Oregon, anyone can practice counseling, but only licensees can call themselves a "Licensed Professional Counselors.".

Educational technology is defined by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology as "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources".

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization.

This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.

Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification.

According to the National Council on Measurement in Education, a certification test is a credentialing test used to determine whether individuals are knowledgeable enough in a given occupational area to be labeled "competent to practice" in that area.

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.

Terms in philosophy such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge" are used to refer to knowledge based on experience.

A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert.

The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.